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Single tickets to the 2015 Virginia Arts festival have gone on sale. The annual spring event will take place April 10 through May 30 in venues from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach. The opening week includes performances by Ballet Hispanico on April 10 and singer Roseanne Cash on April 11, both at the Roper Performing Arts Center in downtown Norfolk. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will bring two shows April 12 to the Attucks Theatre in Norfolk. Other April highlights include Bartok's opera, "Bluebeard's Castle," with sets by glass artist Dale Chihuly, on April 18-19 in Norfolk's Chrysler Hall, and a family favorite, the...

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Single tickets to the 2015 Virginia Arts festival have gone on sale.
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The opening week includes performances by Ballet Hispanico on April 10...

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